Hi Rusty,
A big congratulations to you on your REHF Black River award for Special Achievement!

Difficult to see how your name was not included. It would be a lot more understandable if you were a "shorty" like me. But not only are you too tall to overlook, you're the only one of us who uses his real name.

For those REH fans who may not know, Rusty wrote all the "Notes on the Text" for the Del Rey editions, listing the history of each story and all the differences between the Del Rey version, earlier versions and REH's original, if any. I look at the amount of work involved and ?The Wordbook? seems like a piece of cake.

Rusty, not only did you and Patrice work hard to give us REH?s original words whenever possible, you also noted any differences.

Again, congratulations on your win Rusty, and my thanks to both of you. I became a Howard fan after these Del Rey books were published so REH?s original words were available to me from the get-go.

No, Damon, you are definitely not "chopped liver." Your omission is due to my ignorance of your "Black Coast Press" name. Luckily you listed your location because I went to my REHupa mailing and matched it! (I'm not just another pretty face, you know!)

Your REH: Two Gun Racanteur deserves the REH Aquilonian 2010 award for Outstanding Achievement, Periodical. As a matter of fact, it's a good opportunity to plug your current issue of REH: TGR. Here is the link folks: http://rehtwogunraconteur.com/

Also congratulations to Black Indy for being the 2011 Black Circle nominee and who is also a member of the Forum. I would also like to congratulate Fabrice Tortey on winning the REHF Valusian 2010 award for his book ?Echoes de Cimmerie.?

Congratulations to Mark Finn, a member of the Forum, for being part of the Cimmerian blog that won the REHF Stygian 2009 award for Outstanding Achievement, Website. Also part of that team, was Leo Grin.

I?m not sure he is a member of the Forum, but in any case congratulations to Simon Sanahujas for winning the REHF The Valusian 2009 award for Outstanding Achievement, Anthology.

I believe Steve Trout is a member of this Forum, although I do not know his aka. Steve, was part of The Cimmerian team that won the REHF Stygian 2010 award for Outstanding Achievement, Website.

And, since I feel fairly certain Steve Tompkins is probably looking over my shoulder as I write this, I?d like to add, ?Good job to you too, Steve.?

Crom, some massive oversights on my part! And I'm sure there are more: a lot of Howard folk drop by on the forums.

Rusty, I felt you occupy such a prominent place in Howardom (as evidenced by your win) that it would be redundant to include you. Plus your forum handle is straightforward enough compared to some of our own eclectic choices, so mayhap people would put two and two together without my listing.

Damon's omission, though, I can't defend. My only excuse is that I completely forgot your handle, and again, your place in Howardom is assured enough. Same with Black Indy (argh, there must be tons of folk I haven't put handle-to-name)

(For your convenience, and to make this a pleasant voting experience , the "piece of cake" list of categories is provided below.)

Sunday, April 15th is the last day to send in your votes for the 2012 REH Foundation Awards. There are a number of time zones (REH has fans around the world) so just be sure that it’s April 15th in your time zone when you email your ballot. Remember that all voting emails must be “signed” with first and last names since only members of the REH Foundation are eligible to vote. (NOTE: all ballots are kept confidential.)